Any way to make Word 2007 read HTML?

scarletpeaches · Feb 17, 2009

I have an AlphaSmart Neo, which doesn't format anything. Just text. No italics, no bold, no underline. But I still love it.

Anyhoo...I find that if I bracket text _like this, with underlines_ and hook up the Neo to my laptop, with Word open, and hit send, it will copy the document from my Neo to the computer, but letter by letter. Very slowly.

Still, at least text written like _this_ will appear like this and it saves me going through the entire document putting in italics where I want them.

However. I wondered if there was a way to put HTML tags on either side of a word <i>like so</i> and have Word 2007 auto-format it?

The reason I ask is for time-saving. I can upload an entire 9k workspace from my Neo to the computer in seconds using AlphaSmart Manager, but it doesn't convert any text; it just shows whatever keypresses I've used without auto-formatting text.

Manager uploads as an .rtf which I can later copy/paste into word or 'open with...' so if I had all the HTML tags in a document is there any way of getting word to search them out and convert them?

regdog · Feb 17, 2009

This is what I found on Word 2007

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Clair Dickson · Feb 17, 2009

Okay-- I just tested this and it worked, so here's one option.
If you put # around the text you want italicized (underlined, etc) as such # I thought I was dreaming. #

Then, when you open the RTF file in word, go to Replace.
Hit the "More..." button.
Check the use wildcards box.
In the find box, type # * #.
Put your cursor in the Replace with box. Don't type anything. Just put the cursor there.
Click Format... find Font. Select Italics from the box. Hit okay. You'll see under the Replace with box that it says "Formatting: Italics"

You're ready to go. Hit replace (or replace all). It keeps the ## signs =( but those can be edited out by running another Replace command. Put # (no spaces on either side) inthe Find box. Put nothing in the replace with box. Replace.

Not pretty, but it may do the trick.

scarletpeaches · Feb 17, 2009

I figured out how to do the _underlines_ and upload all the text to a word.doc. From there I go into 'auto format now' or 'auto format options' but jeez...some options are well hidden on MS Word 2007...

Anyhoo, thanks for your help.

Hopefully knowing how to format text now, I won't be so tempted to use the computer and waste time online. I have more of an excuse to use Apollo (as I call my Neo).

Any way to make Word 2007 read HTML?

scarletpeaches

regdog

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